Mowrer named director of testing lab
Jake Mowrer, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service state soil nutrient and water resource specialist, was named the new director of the agency’s Soil, Water and Forage Testing Laboratory in Bryan-College Station.
The testing laboratory provides soil nutrient, pH, salinity and soil textural analyses with a primary focus on maintaining or improving plant growth, as well as forage and plant tissue testing. Services also include testing non-drinking water, such as irrigation and troubleshooting for water wells used for livestock, aquaculture and other uses.
The five full-time staff members in the laboratory perform about 2,000 water tests, 30,000 soil tests and about 10,000 plant analyses, including forage and hay, each year. Mowrer said he plans to build on those numbers and performance moving forward.
PHOTO: Jake Mowrer, Ph.D., is the new director of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Soil, Water and Forage Testing Laboratory in College Station. (Hannah Harrison/Texas A&M AgriLife)
